Your Comments: State should require vehicles to carry a lookout to read signs for the driver

View full sizePeter Chen / The Post-Standard, 2010A firefighters photographs the bus at the scene of a Sept. 11, 2010, fatal Megabus accident on Onondaga Lake Parkway. Four people were killed when the bus hit the railroad bridge abutment at around 2:30 a.m. and rolled onto its side.

Liverpool, NY -- The state Department of Transportation is taking a closer look at the Onondaga Lake Parkway where it passes beneath a low railroad bridge. Workers drilled into the ground this week to test soil conditions and the elevation of the water table at the infamous CSX railroad overpass, said DOT spokesman Gene Cilento.

While the DOT won’t say what is being studied, it has previously considered lowering the roadway beneath the bridge to increase the 10-foot, 9-inch clearance. Another option has been to raise the CSX railroad bridge.

With tongue firmly in cheek, syracuse.com user fanoforange offered a less expensive way to solve the problem of the low bridge:

"We should require all vehicles to have a lookout ride with them. The state could hire a few hundred people and build booths at both ends of the parkway. All drivers would be required to pick up one lookout to read the signs for them and make sure they get through OK. Then drop them off at the other end where they can ride back with another driver in the other direction. This will not only solve the problem of hitting the bridge, it will also create hundreds of new jobs, and those people hired can spend more money at local businesses and create more work for those businesses, and they will have to hire more people who will spend more money ...